Employer Name: Venture Chemicals Inc.

Location: Seagraves, Texas

Date Inspection Initiated and What Prompted the Inspection: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened the inspection in December 2014 after an employee was fatally caught in a mixer/auger bin.

WASHINGTON — Successful workforce development programs depend on continuous improvement and innovation. To ensure these programs are efficient and effective, the U.S. Department of Labor created the Workforce Innovation Fund. The fund provides the support needed to enhance federally funded employment and training programs and study these programs to identify and share best practices in workforce development.

Date of action: June 1, 2015

Type of action: Consent Judgment and Order.

Names of defendant: Seavey’s Furniture & Appliance Inc. and Timothy W. Seavey

Allegations: The Seavey’s Furniture & Appliance Inc. Simple IRA plan was established to provide retirement benefits for participating employees of Seavey’s Furniture & Appliance Inc., located in Windham, Maine. The plan was funded by amounts withheld from employees’ paychecks as employee contributions and by matching employer contributions.

Date of action: June 1, 2015

Type of action: Consent Judgment and Order.

Names of defendant: Seavey's Furniture & Appliance Inc. and Timothy W. Seavey

Date of action: May 26, 2015

Type of action: Criminal Conviction and Sentence

Name of defendant: Lance Silva

Employer: Hot Rods Restaurant Inc. and Hot Rods Garage Inc., doing business as Hotrods Old Vail

Site: 10500 East Old Vail Road, Tucson, Arizona

Employer: Ri-Ky Roofing

Sites: 10213 NE Marx St., Portland, Oregon

Employer name: Tip Top Roofing & Construction/Tip Top Exteriors Inc. 2030 Coltonville Road, Sycamore, Illinois

Investigation site: 1990 Town Drive Naperville, Illinois

WASHINGTON — With the release of the May 2015 Employment Situation Report today, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez says there are five things you should know about its numbers:

Investigation finds electric heater and fumes caused gas explosion

CUMMINGS, Kan. — Two workers endured several weeks of skin graft surgery and physical therapy after suffering second-degree burns when gas vapors exploded in a railcar in December 2014 at GBW Railcar Services LLC. The car was being prepared for cleaning when an electric heater ignited the flammable gas. Seven other workers were treated for injuries and released from the hospital.

Employer name: Shoreline Foundation Inc.

Inspection site: 2781 SW 56th Avenue, Pembroke Park, Florida 33023

Date inspection initiated: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiated the Dec. 18, 2014, inspection after receiving a complaint alleging workplace hazards.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Jeffrey Angstadt didn't want days off to relax. In September 2010 and over the months that followed, the furniture sales executive told his employer, Staples Contract and Commercial, Inc., a subsidiary of Staples, Inc., that he needed to take leave to care for his critically ill wife. While Angstadt was eligible for federal workplace protections for those coping with the illness of a family member, no one at Staples notified him as the law requires.

Projects in 14 states seek to strengthen communities and improve public safety

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against Gruber Systems Inc. and its CEO John Hoskinson alleging that the defendants caused the company's employee stock ownership plan participants to lose money when the plan purchased additional company stock for significantly more than fair market value in two transactions totaling $2.6 million.

The suit alleges that this money should have been set aside to fund the retirement accounts of Gruber retirees, but was steered into the stock purchase to fund the financially distressed company.

Employer name: Shogun Japanese Steakhouse Inc., and Shogun Japanese Steakhouse of Louisville Inc.

Investigation site: 3991 University Drive, Huntsville, Alabama, 4110 Hampton Lake Way and 9026 Taylorsville Road, Louisville, Kentucky

DALLAS — Deval LLC, a federal contractor for loan servicing support, did not pay its employees the prevailing wages or fringe benefits they rightfully earned under the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act, a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation has found. The company has a contract with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Employer: Andale Construction Inc.

Site: 3410 West Adams Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85009

HAVERTOWN, Pa. — For six masonry workers installing brick facades on two new residential properties in Philadelphia, each day on-the-job could have been their last.

Employer name: Detyens Shipyards Inc.

Inspection site: 1670 Dry Dock Avenue, North Charleston, South Carolina 29405

Date inspection initiated: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration performed a comprehensive inspection on Dec. 2, 2014, as part of its Regional Emphasis Program on Maritime Industries.

Employer name: Suburban General Construction Inc., 1019 E. 31st Street, La Grange Park, Illinois

Investigation site: 1515 Lathrop Ave., River Forest, Illinois